Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Cyclopoida > Suborder Oithonida > Family Oithonidae > Genus Oithona

Oithona nana Giesbrecht, 1893

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Oithona*	Baird, 1843	accepted genus name
*Oithonella*	Sars G.O., 1886	synonym
*Paroithona*	Farran, 1908	synonym
*Scribella*	Dana, 1846	synonym

Literature

original description	Giesbrecht, W. (1892-1893). Systematik und Faunistik der pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Systematics and faunistics of the pelagic copepods of the Gulf of Naples and the adjacent marine areas. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte, Herausgegeben von der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 19:1-831, pls. 1-54.[published in sections over 2 years, 1892-1893]].
basis of record	Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 252-268
additional source	Karavaev, V.A. (1895). Materialy k' faune veslonogikh (Copepoda) Chernago morya. [Materials on fauna of Copepoda of the Black Sea.]. Zapiski Kiyevskago Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei (Mémoires de la Société des Naturalistes de Kiev). 14(1):117-174, pls. 1-3. (1895) (Russian with French summary).
additional source	Rosendorn, I. (1917). Copepoda 1 der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition. Die Gattung Oithona. [Copepoda 1 der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition. [Copepoda 1 of the German Deep Sea Expedition. The genus Oithona.]. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 'Valdivia'. 23:1-58, figs. 1-27, map 1.
additional source	Esterly, C.O. (1928). The periodic occurrence of Copepoda in the marine plankton of two successive years at La Jolla, California. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Technical Series 1:247-345, figs. 1-19. (30-iii-1928)
additional source	Sewell, R.B.S. (1924). Crustacea Copepoda: Fauna of Chilka Lake. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 5(12):771-851, pls. 44-59. (vii-1924).
additional source	Murphy, H.E. (1923). The life cycle of Oithona nana, reared experimentally. University of California Publications in Zoology 22(13):449-454, figs. 1-5.
additional source	Ferrari, F.D. & T.E. Bowman. (1980). Pelagic copepods of the family Oithonidae (Cyclopoida) from the east coasts of Central and South America. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 312:i-iii, 1-27, figs. 1-15, tab. 1. (26-vi-1980)
additional source	Torres-González, C. (2006). Desarrollo y crecimiento de estadios naupliares del copépodo Oithona nana en condiciones experimentales: influencia de la calidad de la dieta. [Development and growth of naupliar stages of the copepod Oithona nana in experimental conditions: influence of diet quality.] Tesis de Maestría, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile. [In Spanish.]
additional source	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
additional source	Khalil, M.T. & N.S.A. El Rahman. (1997). Abundance and diversity of surface zooplankton in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, Egypt. Journal of Plankton Research 19(7), 927-936.
additional source	Nishida, S., O. Tanaka & M. Omori. (1977). Cyclopoid copepods of the family Oithonidae in Suruga Bay and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan 24(2):119-158, figs. 1-26, tabs. 1-2.
additional source	Kiefer, F. (1929). Crustacea Copepoda. 2. Cyclopoida Gnathostoma. Das Tierreich, Berlin und Leipzig. 53:1-102. [German].
additional source	Muxagata, E.M. & J.A. Williams. (2004). The Mesozooplankton of the Solent-Southampton Water system: a photographic guide. Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, U.K. 103 pp.
additional source	Karanovic, T. (2008). Marine Interstitial Poecilostomatoida and Cyclopoida (Copepoda) of Australia. Crustaceana Monograph, Brill, Leiden 9:1-336
additional source	Al-Yamani, F.Y., V. Skryabin, A. Gubanova, S. Khvorov & I. Prusova. (2011). Marine Zooplankton Practical Guide for the Northwestern Arabian Gulf. Volume 2. Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Safat Kuwait. 196 pp.
additional source	Paulmier, G. (2009). Copepods Cyclopoidea (genus Oithona, Oncaea, Corycaeus) of neritic waters of Brittany and Western Normandy. Les copepodes Cyclopoidea (Genres Oithona, Oncaea, Corycaeus) des eaux neritiques et de la Bretagne et de la Normandie occidentale. Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux. 37(2):175-190. (French).
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Shuvalov, V.S. (1980). Veslonogiye rachki — tsiklopoidy semeystva Oithonidae Mirovogo okeana. [Copepoda crustaceans - Cyclopoida of the family Oithonidae of the world oceans.]. V serii: "Opredeliteli po faune SSSR", izdavayemoy Zoologicheskim institutom AN SSSR. Leningrad, "Nauka". 125:1-197, figs. 1-64. (24-v-1980, Russian.).
additional source	Margineanu, C. (1968). Sur l'écologie de quelques espèces du zooplancton de la mer Noire, la Méditerrannée et l'Océan Atlantique. 1. Acartia clausi, Oithona nana et Penilia avirostris. [On the ecology of some species of zooplankton of the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean. 1. Acartia clausi, Oithona nana and Penilia avirostris.]. Travaux du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Grigore Antipa. 8(1):273-278.
additional source	González, J.G. & T.E. Bowman. (1965). Planktonic copepods from Bahía Fosforescente, Puerto Rico, and adjacent waters. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 117(3513):241-303. (24-viii-1965)
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41.
additional source	Sazhina, L.I. (1985). Naupliusy massovykh vidov pelagickeskikh kopepod Mirovogo okeana. (Naupliuses of mass species of the world's oceans.) Naukova Dumka, Kiev 238pp.
additional source	Sugier, K. (2019). Molecular and anatomical study of the epipelagic copepod Oithona nana (Crustacea; Cyclopoida). Etude moléculaire et anatomique du copépode épipélagique Oithona nana (Copepoda; Cyclopoida). Thèse de doctorat, l'Université Paris-Saclay, at l'Université Evry Val d'Essonne and CEA-Genoscope, Evry, France. 189 pp. [In English and French].
additional source	Nishida, S. (1985). Taxonomy and distribution of the family Oithonidae (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Bulletin of the Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo 20:1-167, figs. 1-101, tabs. 1-8, Appendix with Tabs. 1-2. (Vii-1985).
additional source	Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Fleeger & P.A. Montagna. (2009). Free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, D. L. & D.K. Camp [Eds]. Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 1393 pp. Chapter pagination: 841-869.
additional source	Ladhar, C., F. Denis, W. Guermazi, N. Annabi-Trabelsi, N. Casse, H. Ayadi & G.N. Hotos. (2024). Phylogeny and Genetic Population Structure of Dominant Copepods in Two Ponds with Contrasting Salinities in the Solar Saltern of Sfax (Tunisia) Based on Mitochondrial (COI and Cytb) and Nuclear (18S) DNA Sequences. Diversity-Basel. 16(12):1-15. Dec 2024.
additional source	Salinas Cadena, M.E. (2007). Abundancia, distribución y variación temporal de copépodos marinos (Calanoideos, harpacticoideos, cyclopoideos, poecilostomatoideos y monstrilloideos), en aguas costeras de la Bahía de Santa Elena: La Libertad durante octubre 2004/octubre 2005. Tesis de Biología Marina, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador. 261 pp. [In Spanish; English abstract] https://repositorio.upse.edu.ec/handle/46000/829.
additional source	Lampitt, R.S. & J.C. Gamble. (1982). Diet and respiration of the small planktonic marine copepod Oithona nana. Marine Biology, Berlin. 66(2):185-190, figs. 1-4, tab. 1. (ii-1982).
ecology source	Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. Earth System Science Data. 9(1):99-113.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Oithona nana Giesbrecht, 1893. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106651